Door silencer



Oct. 20, 1931. o F NELSON 1,828,431

DOOR S ILENCER Filed Dec. 13, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet l Invenior M flaaarF/Vabam,

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DOOR SILENCE-IR Filed Dec. '13, 1950 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inventor 05 carEjVeZsam,

A llomey Patented Oct ZO, 1931 r r V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE OSGAR I. NELSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS noon sILnNcER Application filed December 13, 1930. Serial No. 502,197.

The present invention relates to a door be mounted on the leaves of the hinges as silencer and has for its prime object to proindicated in Figure 4. vide an exceedingly simple device which is Of course the device may be used in other inexpensive to manufacture and designed for ways but it is thought that the examples given the purpose of association with the door to are suflicient to appreciate the utility and prevent the noise incident to the slamming advantages of the invention. or closing of the door. It is apparent that changes in the details Another very important object of the inof construction, in the dimensions, and in vention resides in the provision of a device the materials of the device may be resorted 10 of this nature which is thoroughly efficient to without departing from the spirit or scope and reliable in use and otherwise well adaptof the invention as hereinafter claimed or ed to the purpose for which it is designed. sacrificing any of its advantages.

With the above and numerous other objects Having thus described my invention, what in View as will appear-as the description I claim as new is: proceeds, the invention resides in certain Means for'silencing the closing action of novel features of construction, and in the a door comprising a flat plate of elongated combination and arrangement of parts as will form having its ends bent to provide loops be hereinafter more fully described and to form pockets at the ends of the plate, claimed. a rubber strip of greater length than the In the drawings: plate and having its ends placed in the pocket Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a whereby the intermediate portion of the strip doorway with the devices mounted on one is pulled outwardly from the plate, and fasside thereof adjacent the hinges of the door. tening elements passing through the looped Figure 2 is a view showing the hinged edge ends of the plate and through the ends of of a door with the devices mounted thereon. V the strip into a part of the door to hold the Figure'3 shows one of the three corners of device on the door and to hold the ends of a door with a device mounted thereon. .the strip in the pocket.

Figure 4 is a view showing the devices on In testimony whereof I afiix my signature. a hinge, and OSCAR F. NELSON.

Figure 5 is a longitudinal section through so one of the devices.

I will first describe one of the devices in detail and particular attention is directed to Figure 5. Numeral 5 denotes an oblong 35 plate with ends 6 bent thereover to form pockets for receiving the ends of a strip of rubber or similar material denoted by the numeral 7 and the intermediate portion of 40 this strip is bowed outwardly from the plate.

The ends of the-strip are anchored in the pockets by screws 8 which are also utilized to anchor the device;

The devices may be mounted on the side 45 of the doorway adjacent the hinges as indicated in Figure 1, or the devices may be mounted on the hinged edge of the door as is indicated in Figure 2 or the device may be mounted on the free end of the door as 50 is indicated in Figure 3 or the device may 

